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Friday, 9 May 2014

Policy change over Bible ban mooted lawsuit
(David Lee, Courthouse News Service)

Interfaith Alliance president Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy 
announces his retirement
(Press Release, Interfaith Alliance)

How is technology changing spirituality?
(Various authors, Patheos Public Square)

Latvian school features ‘Jew-free’ sign
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

New legal battle opens over Obamacare and contraceptives
(David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times)

New Washington state Supreme Court justice has extensive religious background
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Saudi Arabia's top cleric says Nigeria's Boko Haram smears Islam
(Reuters Africa)

Episcopal Church wins lawsuit over San Joaquin Diocese property
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)

Christians in Israel and Palestine fear rise in violence ahead of Pope's visit
(Orlando Crowcroft, The Guardian)

Charlotte abortionist who made racist comments in 2012 arrested for rape
(Christian News Wire)

Upper South Carolina: Bishop releases reflection on same-sex blessings
(Episcopal News Service)

Government prayers ruled constitutional by US Supreme Court
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Jewish Americans ask: What does it mean to be ‘pro-Israel’?
(Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service)

Putin: Filling the ideological void
(Rob James, Evangelical Alliance)

Church leaders to take part in talks between South Sudan’s Kiir and Machar
(Presbyterian Church (USA))

Algerian Christians should promote friendship with Muslims, says Pope Envoy
(Illia Djadi, World Watch Monitor)

67 LDS missionaries transferred out of Ukraine
(Faith Heaton Jolley, KSL.com)

S. Sudan government and rebels abuse human rights
(Amanda Casanova, Christian Headlines)

Uzbekistan: To Baptists: "Let him pay the fine and we'll return the car"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)

Envoy says Israel and Palestine wouldn't compromise in peace talks
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)

Vandals deface Jerusalem church before Pope visits
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)

Russell Sandberg on Religion, Law and Society
(Frank Cranmer, Law & Religion UK)

Sustaining religious harmony: The dialogue way - analysis
(Mohd Alami Musa, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies)

Nigeria's president vows to defeat Boko Haram
(Al Jazeera America)

Ten years in prison and a thousand lashes for Saudi liberal blogger
(AsiaNews.it)

One of Mao's former red guards paints Pope Francis' portrait
(AsiaNews.it)

EVENT, 9 May 2014: The Future of Religious Studies and the Public Understanding of Religion in a Global Age
(The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs)

Thursday, 8 May 2014

'We'd rather be Protestants': More Hispanics give Catholicism an unwanted wake-up call
(Mary Wisniewski, Charisma News)

Australia finds some asylum seekers to be refugees
(Al Jazeera America)

Shiraz cemetery demolition continues by the Revolutionary Guards
(Baha'i World News Service)

B'nai B'rith deeply concerned by U.N. Human Rights Council's choice to fill anti-Israel post
(B'nai B'rith International)

Homes set on fire, militants flee to Bhutan after Assam massacre: police
(Biswajyoti Das, Reuters)

Anti-Christian slogans alarm Church before Pope's Holy Land visit
(Jeffrey Heller, Reuters)

Western ally against al Qaeda faces few rivals in Mauritanian poll
(Laurent Prieur, Reuters)

Gunmen assassinate eastern Libya security chief in Benghazi
(Ayman al-Warfalli, Ahmed Elumami, and Ulf Laessing, Reuters)

Syrian rebels blow up Aleppo hotel used by army
(Dominic Evans, Reuters)

Britain must prevent its nationals fighting abroad: report
(Michael Holden, Reuters)

U.S. appeals court presses Obama administration on contraception
(Aruna Viswanatha, Reuters)

London imam describes accident that cost him hands, eye at U.S. trial
(Joseph Ax, Reuters)

Nigeria's president at WEF pledges to free kidnapped girls
(Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Lanre Ola, Reuters)

Supreme Court prayer ruling may spur new alliances
(Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service)

Church official’s case headed to state high court
(Associated Press, The Washington Post)

Christian leaders say Middle East Christians must not be forgotten
(Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service)

Indonesian woman gang-raped, faces caning for adultery
(Michael Winter, Religion News Service)

Benham brothers: `If our faith costs us a television show, then so be it.’
(Ann Oldenburg, Religion News Service)

In a nutshell: What is Boko Haram?
(Oren Dorell, Religion News Service)

Vatican calls for release of kidnapped Nigerian girls
(Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service)

Notre Dame signals welcome to gay athletes in new campaign
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)

Hispanic ‘nones’ * Nigeria’s girls * Atheist TV: Thursday’s roundup
(Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service)

Residents: 50 bodies found in Nigeria violence
(Associated Press, Mint Press News)

How Myanmar’s government is making violence between Muslims and Buddhists worse
(Manny Maung and Patrick Winn, Global Post)

Azerbaijan: Beating to extract "evidence"; conscientious objector gets one year's military detention
(Felix Corley, Forum 18)

Atheist group renews suit on Rankin school prayer
(Jeff Amy, Associated Press)

Saudi Arabian online liberal activist Raif Badawi sentenced to 1,000 lashes
(Ludovica Iaccino, International Business Times)

Gunmen kill Pakistan lawyer defending blasphemy case
(Katharine Houreld; Nick Macfie, Reuters)

A decade after bishops’ policy, Catholic commencement scandals make sudden return
(Matthew Archbold, Cardinal Newman Society)

Jersey, the Archbishop, and the future
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)

We still don't know who'll win the global battle for free speech
(Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian)

Challenges ahead for Catholic Church as Hispanics drift away
(Herb Scribner, Deseret News National Edition)

Doug Sauder to take place of Bob Coy as Calvary Chapel lead Pastor
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)

Couple who beat daughter for refusing abortion to stand trial soon
(Steven Ertelt, Life News)

Syria gains international attention for violation of religious freedom
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)

Saeed Abedini remains in prison for second consecutive birthday
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)

Energy company rescinds job offer to homeschooled graduate
(Carrie Dedrick, Christian Headlines)

Nigerian Cardinal: schoolgirls' abduction is shameful
(Josephine McKenna, Christian Headlines)

Evangelicals and Catholics together marks 20 years
(Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Christian Headlines)

Freedom, truth, & state power: The case for religious & economic freedom
(Kishore Jayabalan, Aleteia)

HGTV cancels show that features hosts with Biblical worldview
(Russ Jones, Christian Headlines)

Symposium: Religious pluralism, civic unity, and the judicial role
(Rick Garnett, SCOTUS Blog)

Archbishop Makgoba condemns abductions of Nigerian schoolgirls as 'outrage'
(Anglican Communion News Service)

1500-year-old bible discovered in Turkey indicates Jesus Christ was not crucified
(Donovan Longo, Latin Times)

Scandal: Horizontal and vertical consequences
(Marvin Olasky, World News Group)

‘The sky is not falling’ with Hispanic Catholic numbers
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)

Halal meat row: faith leaders make joint call for clearer labelling
(Matthew Weaver, The Guardian)

150 Christian leaders join Congressmen in pledging support for Middle Eastern churches
(Michael Gryboski, Christian Post)

Tajik clerics urge authorities to stop "searching for enemies" amongst compatriots
(Interfax-Religion)

The Queen's new clothes
(M. Anthony Mills, Real Clear Religion)

Patriarch Kirill prays at the Kremlin wall for perished in Ukraine
(Interfax-Religion)

Why should Evangelical Christians care about climate change?
(Chris Mooney, Slate)

Bible curriculum part of green Evangelization push
(Bailey Elise McBride, The Associated Press, The Big Story)

Keeping guns away from the Torah in Georgia
(Elana Erdstein Perry, The Jewish Daily Forward)

Lebanon church head's planned Jerusalem visit stirs controversy
(Alexander Dziadosz and Laila Bassam, Reuters)

‘Lawyer of Pakistani accused of blasphemy killed’
(Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy)

John Kerry apologizes for using "Apartheid" to describe Israel's potential future
(Emily Murdoch, World Religion News)

Beverly Hills passes resolution condemning Brunei Sharia laws, calls for Sultan of Brunei to sell the Beverly Hills Hotel
(Alison Lesley, World Religion News)

Obama at Shoah Foundation gala calls for worldwide fight against anti-Semitism
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Ireland’s Jewish Justice Minister resigns over government report
(The Jewish Daily: Forward)

Safe Zone in church to highlight plight of refugees
(Anglican Communion News Service)

Missouri legislature sends student religion bill to Governor
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Town of Greece impact: injunction lifted in Maryland prayer case
(Don Byrd, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

BJC disappointed in SCOTUS decision upholding official prayer at local government meetings
(Cherilyn Crowe, Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty)

Victory: U.S. Supreme Court upholds legislative prayer
(Emily Hardman, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

Justice Thomas’s concurrence in Town of Greece
(Marc O. DeGirolami, Center for Law and Religion Forum at St. John's University School of Law)

ECLJ seeks justice for seven-year-old Christian Pakistani rape victim
(Shaheryar Gill, European Centre for Law and Justice)

Sauca and Prove appointed to World Council of Churches posts
(World Council of Churches)

Does BJP have a hand in the latest massacre in Assam? - OpEd
(Dr. Habib Siddiqui, Eurasia Review)

Sri Lanka, even Buddhists against religious police wanted by the government
(Melani Manel Perera, AsiaNews.it)

Education and religious freedom for the good of Iran and Myanmar
(Bernardo Cervellera, AsiaNews.it)

Paul Bhatti: Truth on attacks in Pakistan, but support for institutions
(AsiaNews.it)

Chinese authorities warn religious groups against converting children rescued from the streets
(AsiaNews.it)

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